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EARLY SETTLERS OF SANGAMON COUNTY - 1876
By John Carroll Power

These biographies were submitted by a researcher and evidently abstracted from the 1876 History of Sangamon County, IL. Errors could occur, so one should always verify the correctness by obtaining copies of vitals and performing all necessary research to document what is contained herein.



BENNETT, ELIZA (sister of Rev. Wm. T. Bennett,) was born Dec. 27, 1810 near Hagerstown, Md. Her parents moved, when she was five years old, to Shepherdstown, Va., where they had previously resided. She was there married, May 20, 1832, to George W. Shutt. They had one child born in Shepherdstown, and Mr. Shutt died there in 1835. Mrs. Shutt, with her child, moved to Springfield, Ill., arriving in May 1836. After a residence of five years in Springfield, she returned to Shepherdstown, Va., and was there married, Jan. 17, 1841, to Daniel G. Kalb, who was born Dec. 4, 1815, in Frederick City, Md. They had two children in Shepherdstown and moved to Washington county, Md., where they had one child; thence to Loudon county, Va., where they had one child, and from there to Springfield, Ill., arriving in October, 1849, where one child was born, and in 1856 moved to Round Prairie, four miles east by south of Springfield. Of her children by her first marriage -

GEORGETTA, born July 18, 1835, in Shepherdstown, Va., was married Jan. 1, 1853, in Springfield, Ill., to Phillip L. Shutt, who was born Nov. 178, 1829, in Loudon county, Va. They had eleven children, five of whom died young. The other six, FRANKLIN, MAGGIE, CHARLES, PAUL, HARRY and LAURA reside with their parents in Paris, Edgar county, Ill.

Children of the second marriage -

MARYABNER, born Dec. 12, 1841, in Shepherdstown, Va., resides with her parents.

ETHELBERT, born Sept. 18, 1843 in Shepherdstown, Va., brought up in Sangamon county and enlisted at Springfield, August 20, 1861, for three years in Co. B, 33d Ill. Inf. He served more than his full time, and was honorably discharged Oct. 11, 1864. He is now in business in St. Louis.

WILLIAM E. B., born August 2, 1846, in Washington county, Md., brought up in Sangamon county, Ill., enlisted at Springfield in Co. G, 114th Ill. Vol. Inf., and was killed in battle of Guntown, Miss., June 10, 1864.

GEO. BROOK, born Dec. 4, 1848, in Loudon county Va., is a dealer in musical instruments in Springfield,

JULIA M., born Nov. 16, 1854, in Springfield, died June 10, 1859.

Daniel G. Kalb and wife reside at Willow Dale, one mile northeast of Sangamon Station. Mr. Kalb was a local preacher in the M,. E. church from Feb. 6, 1847, until 1864. His license was signed at eight annual renewals by Rev. Peter Cartwright, but when it expired in 1864, he declined to have it renewed. He was engaged in teaching from 1837 to 1854. Mr. Kalb enlisted August 11, 1862, in Co. G., 114th Ill. Vol. Inf., for three years. Finding it quite oppressive to march with his knapsack and haversack, he obtained a wheelbarrow, and not meeting with opposition from officers, ran it hundreds of miles, and often carried the baggage of sick and disabled comrades. He has the wheelbarrow yet, and it will doubtless be handed down as a memorial of the war to suppress the rebellion, and the part he acted it .



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